Common Name: rooted spikerush Duration: Perennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Graminoid General: Mat-forming perennial with very minor rhizomes, the scales not even evident, the stems obscurely 10-ribbed, terete, 1-12 cm tall by less than 1 mm wide, soft and spongy. Vegetative: The stem has ephemeral leaf sheaths at the base that are translucent, colorless, and with a blunt apex. Inflorescence: Spikelets ovoid 2-3 mm long by 1-1.5 mm wide, the apex acute, with 5-15 scales, stramineous to slightly reddish, broadly greenish to colorless medially, faintly 3-5 veined, often ovate, membranous, fleshy, the lower scales much larger than others, slightly keeled, the flowers perianth bristles equaling the achene, with yellow to brown anthers less than 1 mm, the achenes brownish with many angles and longitudinal ridges, around 7, narrowly obovoid, 2 times longer than wide. Ecology: Found along water margins and in moist soils, bogs, or wet meadows and in seeps and springs from 1,000-4,500 ft (152-1372 m), flowers from April-December. Notes: Similar to E. bella but differs in having much longer floral scales that are rounded at the apex and not recurved, along with clearly evident rhizomes. Ethnobotany: Unknown Etymology: Eleocharis is from Greek heleos or helos, a marsh, low ground, meadow and charis, grace, beauty, hence marsh grace, while radicans means with rooting stems. Synonyms: Numerous, see Tropicos Editor: SBuckley, 2011